At least 80 Michigan communities have banned or are moving to ban recreational marijuana retail stores and related businesses.

It’s a swift response from local governments in the month and a half since voters chose to legalize marijuana in Michigan. The Michigan Regulation and Taxation of Marihuana Act took effect Dec. 6.

Some of those communities have chosen to impose year-long bans on businesses as they wait to see what rules and regulations will write for the new industry. Officials with the Bureau of Marijuana Regulation have until December 2019 to write the rules and start accepting license applications.

Map: Communities that have banned or are considering banning recreational marijuana businesses

Communities in red have chosen to ban recreational marijuana businesses, and those in yellow have ordinances pending that would ban businesses. Though there is no official list of communities that have banned businesses, the map is compiled from information from the state and from media reports.

Use the plus and minus symbols on the map below to zoom in and see which municipalities near you have taken action. Move the map by using your cursor.

Compare the communities that are banning recreational marijuana business to their attitudes towards medical marijuana, seen in the map below.

Map: Communities that have opted in and opted out of medical marijuana

Communities in green that have “opted in” have decided to allow medical marijuana businesses, as opposed to those in orange that have “opted out” and ban medical marijuana businesses.

Additionally, communities can choose to opt out of medical marijuana businesses by taking no action at all.

Some of Michigan’s cities, villages and townships have felt pressured to act quickly on the recreational marijuana issue because the new law is written differently than the Medical Marihuana Facilities Licensing Act.

“All those communities have plenty of time to change their mind,” said Jamie Lowell, a board member of MILegalize and one of the authors of the recreational marijuana law. “Over time, I suspect many of those places that have been opting out now will come online and get with the program.”

With medical marijuana, a city would have to take a vote to opt-in to the program by passing an “enabling ordinance” -- otherwise a business could not gain local or state approval for a license.

With recreational marijuana, the process is slightly different. There is no need for a city or township to pass an enabling ordinance to opt-in. However, that doesn’t mean that businesses can just open up shop there.

The MRTMA says a city or township “may” choose to add local zoning and regulatory ordinances. State officials would also have to issue an all-important state license in order for a recreational marijuana business -- like a grow operation or a retail store -- to open.

However, a local ordinance allowing recreational marijuana businesses does not have to be in place in order for the state to issue a business license.

“We’ll check to see if there is a local ordinance banning it,” said David Harns, spokesman for the state’s Bureau of Marijuana Regulation. “If there’s nothing at the local level that would prohibit us from issuing it, then we will.”

Residents can collect signatures and challenge their local government’s decision on recreational marijuana through a ballot petition process.

Local governments who choose to allow recreational marijuana businesses -- specifically, retail stores -- would be the recipients of a cut of the tax revenue from recreational marijuana sales.

Due to the passage of Proposal 1, a three precent tax on medical marijuana products will be eliminated, as a stipulation of an earlier law.